Location: 1100 451, Beco do Vigário 1A, 1100-613 Lisboa, Portugal
Year of Inscription: 2023
Venue Type: Live Music Venue / Casual / Compact / Late Bar
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| EBG Rating: | 7.8/10 |
| Choice/ Quality of Drinks | ❤️❤️❤️ Basic options covering the bases adequately, with some very passable house wine a bonus. |
| Style/ Décor | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tiny Alfama bar overlooking a small square and play area, with a cobble slope out of the front step. Inside a wall of musical instruments and colourful artwork. Perhaps a maximum capacity of 30 people. |
| Atmosphere/ Character | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Live music venue bringing in everyone from buskers to famous faces, this is not a polished Fado restaurant but an international open-minded gritty folk club which even welcomes performances from guests in an open mic style. |
| Amenities/ Events | ❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, house guitar, limited outdoor space |
| Value For Money | ❤️❤️❤️ Fair value. |
| Description | Brazilian Mané do Café (nickname), is an artist, novelist and poet, presiding over daily readings, occasionally bursting forth with a frenzied accordion performance. In between he manages the service while his partner manages the bar. A friendly, ramshackle and dynamic venue where you can feel electricity in their air some nights – chance meetings, new friendships and the clubbing together of musicians. An absolutely tiny bar, you’ll do well to cleave a spot for yourself let alone your friends. The bar keeps almost nocturnal rhythms, often carrying on until dawn. Current fees (2023) are 5 euros to cover the musicians pay, while the food and drink is inoffensively priced (although not really genuinely cheap either). The raw authenticity has inevitably travelled via word of mouth to the point where it has attracted some famous faces, but it works best as the gritty, no-names all passion bar it started off as and ought to remain. (Added September 2023) |
